New York, US (PANA) - The UN verified 3,688 cases of rape and other sexual violence committed in war in 2023, a “dramatic increase” of [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Rights group Human Rights Watch said here Saturday that a bill before Gambia’s National Assembly to reverse a groundbreaking 2015 ban on female [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A roundtable organized by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has called for women to be more involved in [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Older women and women with disabilities face particular risk of abuse, yet their situation is largely hidden in most countries’ statistics [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Older women and women with disabilities face particular risk of abuse, yet their situation is largely hidden in most global and [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin ( PANA) - Benin's economic capital Cotonou will host the first International Summit of the Global Network of Women Who Make a Difference [...] Full text...
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of State for Women's Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Houria Khalifa al-Tarmal, chaired for the first time [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Around the world women’s rights are under attack, and governments must act to reverse that dangerous trend, the UN chief [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Monday highlighted the urgent need to defend women's rights which are under threat, citing a reversal [...] Full text...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) --In Sierra Leone, women and girls experience a lifecycle of Gender Based Violence (GBV). From childhood to adolescence, adulthood, and even [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN Secretary General Representative in Libya Abdoulaye Bathily said here Friday that the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomed [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - At the current rate of investment, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by [...] Full text...
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Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The global gender gap for women in [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who continue to suffer its devastating impacts, the UN agency championing [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concern over attempts to repeal the law that prohibits Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) [...] Full text...
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Malagasy women and girls face multiple disadvantages that affect their ability to accumulate human capital in education and health, participate in [...] Full text...
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - It’s important to celebrate – there are reasons to celebrate. We should take this positive energy to take on the many [...] Full text...
Bangui, CAR (PANA) – One hundred and fourteen million people are forcibly displaced from their homes across the world, with most of them displaced within [...] Full text...
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – Many adolescent girls and women in Mozambique, who are pregnant or parenting, drop out of school because they face huge barriers [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Failure to educate girls costs approximately $15 to $30 trillion in lifetime earnings for 12 years of missed education. [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed that gender equality in science is essential to building a better future for all.
"Sadly, [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Some 4.4 million girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) this year, the UN Secretary-General warned on Tuesday, appealing for [...] Full text...
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland (PANA) - A new World Economic Forum report released Wednesday shows that closing the women’s health gap will allow more women to live [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity Abdulhamid al Dbaiba Wednesday stressed the need to empower women in all [...] Full text...
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A statement by a young woman in Luanda, Angola echoes an experience faced by countless others: “A woman has to earn [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive global health crisis; one in three women worldwide experience GBV in their lifetime [...] Full text...
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique has made significant progress towards gender equality, but critical challenges remain.
It has strong laws in areas such as child marriage, [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the Supreme National Council for Libyan Women have criticised the lack of representation of women at all levels of [...] Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the "blue line" or [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed has called for greater investment in preventing violence against women and girls, an issue that [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The heads of three UN agencies on Wednesday highlighted the disproportionate suffering faced by women and girls amidst the ongoing [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The High-level Generation Equality Africa Regional Meeting ended on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with a commitment to [...] Full text...
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - Sub-Saharan Africa has been making remarkable strides towards achieving legal gender equality. Between October 2021 and October 2022, seven countries [...] Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Imagine being seated across from a loan officer in a bank, stepping into the shoes of a small business owner, with [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Twenty-three years after the adoption of a landmark UN Security Council resolution on women, peace and security, their presence is [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A member of the Libyan House of Representatives (Parliament), Sultana al-Mesmari, took part in the meetings of the 36th. session of [...] Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Lubna still remembers the sound of shelling in Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan, six months ago.
The 34-year old was, at [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- A joint statement by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- Some 180 civil society organizations from across Africa and around the world co-signed an open letter urging the Government of The Gambia to [...] Full text...
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - A few months ago, during a trip to Liberia, I had the opportunity to meet a remarkable young woman named Victoria [...] Full text...
Washington, United States (PANA) - Millions of girls and young women’s across Eastern and Southern Africa will gain greater access to education and economic empowerment [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nearly 24,000 women and girls in flood-affected areas of eastern Libya are in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations Population [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Continuing violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations, a UN-appointed independent [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Bank has approved additional financing of $700 million for Nigeria to scale up the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The world is falling worryingly short in terms of closing the gender gap as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Amid the excitement around the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Access to social protection is a fundamental human right, yet a recent UN human rights report shows that numerous women and girls [...] Full text...
Beirut, Lebanon (PANA) - Many Middle East and North African countries still prevent women from moving freely in their own country or travelling abroad without the [...] Full text...